All Quotes

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
‐‐ Horace Walpole

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.
‐‐ Mary Wesley

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
‐‐ Carl Sagan

Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.
‐‐ Dan Chaon

Imaginative writing, to me, is a way of discovering who we are and what we have to contend with; discovering what is out there and also what is not there. It enables me to think and explore and make something new with language while trying to make sense of our lives.
‐‐ Romesh Gunesekera

Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.
‐‐ Paul Davies

Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government.
‐‐ Mikhail Gorbachev

Imagine a country where the vast majority of seniors live in poverty, a country where for many there are no golden years, but a time of struggle and dependence. That was the United States before the creation of Social Security, which has proven to be one of the most effective and important government programs in our history.
‐‐ John Delaney

Imagine a government which has delivered double-digit growth rates for over seven years losing an election anywhere on earth. It is unheard of for such a phenomenon to happen.
‐‐ Meles Zenawi

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress for meaningful immigration reform.
‐‐ Gary Johnson

Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.
‐‐ Gary Johnson

Imagine a libertarian president ending impediments to free markets.
‐‐ Gary Johnson

Imagine a music business where all the music press talked about, all day long, was cover bands of old rock and pop groups. Beatles cover bands, Rolling Stones cover bands, The Who cover bands, Led Zeppelin cover bands. Cover bands, cover bands, everywhere you go.
‐‐ Antony Johnston

Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.
‐‐ Novak Djokovic

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.
‐‐ Donald Rumsfeld

Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man!
‐‐ Jules Verne

Imagine a State occasion where the Queen is wearing trainers with her tiara because she thinks it will make people like her better, more folksy. It's unthinkable. But that's patently the thought process Gordon Brown (or his spin doctor) went through before the Prime Minister appeared on the world stage in Beijing without his suit and tie.
‐‐ Peter York

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.
‐‐ Jack Henry Abbott

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.'
‐‐ Stan Brakhage

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
‐‐ Jimmy Wales

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
‐‐ Adam Johnson

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
‐‐ Bill Drayton

Imagine a world where mothers take as good care of themselves as they do their children and a world where mothers are so supported they're able to do that. That's the world we all need to create because our children, families, and communities are depending on us.
‐‐ Christy Turlington

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
‐‐ John Lennon

Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception.
‐‐ Stan Brakhage

Imagine being 30 years old, thinking you were a media titan, and now you are labeled a 'scam artist.'
‐‐ Jason Calacanis

Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.
‐‐ Dale Dauten

Imagine feeling like every kiss goodbye to your loved ones each day might be your last kiss. Police officers and their families feel this way every single day.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn

Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.
‐‐ Eric Liu

Imagine for a moment the result if everyone were to love one another as Jesus loves his disciples. We would have no bickering, quarreling, strife, or contention in our homes. We would not offend or insult one another either verbally or in any other way. We would not have unnecessary litigation over small matters.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or thirst, they can satisfy that. It's this basic feeling that there is life ticking away inside of you.
‐‐ Antonio Damasio

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
‐‐ Epictetus

Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.
‐‐ Shel Silverstein

Imagine having all of your freedoms taken away, being forced to work against your will, and constantly living under the threat of violence - in short, being forced to live as a slave. Sadly, this situation is a reality for millions of children, women, and men each year as part of the global human trafficking industry.
‐‐ Bill Flores

Imagine Him smiling down on you right now. Embrace His love. Remember, you are His most prized possession, the apple of His eye!
‐‐ Victoria Osteen

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.
‐‐ John Malkovich

Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.
‐‐ Kevin O'Leary

Imagine how much capital a country like Argentina might attract - if instead of defaulting seriatim and affecting a pose of anger toward creditors, it borrowed responsibly and honored its obligations.
‐‐ Paul Singer

Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.
‐‐ Ray Comfort

Imagine if all those kings and dukes hadn't commissioned those crazy cathedrals, paintings and music... we'd still be living in sticks and mud. Because none of those things made any economic sense. Human beings' capacity to 'waste time' is a miracle - but that's exactly what art is for.
‐‐ Ha-Joon Chang

Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.
‐‐ Alison Gopnik

Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?
‐‐ Eddie Van Halen

Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.
‐‐ Jeff Merkley

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
‐‐ Jef Raskin

Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.
‐‐ Salma Hayek